Sql COALESCE entire rows?

Question

I just learned about COALESCE and I\'m wondering if it\'s possible to COALESCE an entire row of data between two tables? If not, what\'s the best approach to the following r

Answer 1

You can also do this:

1) Outer Join the two tables on tbl_Employees.Id = tbl_Customers.Id. This will give you all the rows from tbl_Employees and leave the tbl_Customers columns null if there is no matching row.

2) Use CASE WHEN to select either the tbl_Employees column or tbl_Customers column, based on whether tbl_Customers.Id IS NULL, like this:

CASE WHEN tbl_Customers.Id IS NULL THEN tbl_Employees.Name ELSE tbl_Customers.Name END AS Name

(My syntax might not be perfect there, but the technique is sound).